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0. H. HEWLETT & G. A. NEEDHAM.

GASH CARRIER.

No. 273,841. Patented Mar. 13,1883.

UNITED STAT S ATENT Fries.

OSCAR H. HEWLETT AND CHARLES A. NEEDHAM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO ELIAS P. NEEDHAM AND CHARLES A. NEEDHAM, F

SAME PLACE.

CASH-CARR! ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,841, dated March 13, 1883.

Application filed July 12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: In the accompanying drawings, Figurel rep- Be it known that we, OSCAR H. HEWLETT resents an elevation of acash-carrying system and CHARLES A. NEEDHAM, both of the city or apparatus embodyingour invention. Fig. 2 of New York, in the county and State of New represents a perspective of the ball which we York, have invented a certain new and useful prefer to employ, the two hemispherical parts 55 Improvementin Cash-Carriers for Stores, &c., I being separated. Fig. 3 represents a plan of of whlch the following is a specification. the pairs of diverging tracks or ways and The object of our invention is to provide for balls therein. Fig. 4 represents a transverse the ready transmission of moneys received section of the tracks or ways. Fig. 5 reprefrom purchasers from the sales counters or seats a side view or an elevator which we may 60 other parts of the store or place to the cashiers employ, and Fig. 6 represents a plan of a pordesk and for the return of change from the tion of the tracks or ways in connection with cashiers desk. which the elevator is used.

According to our system of cash-carrying, Similar letters of reference designate corthe money is placed in balls which are rolled responding parts in all the figures. 5 down inclined tracks or ways to the cashiers Adesignates the casliiers desk, and B desdesk, and the balls containing change or ignates the several counters from which empty, as the case may be, are rolled down moneys are to be transmitted to the cashiers other tracks or ways to the place from whence desk and the change returned. The money to they came. be thus transmitted is inclosed in balls of the Our invention consists in a hollow hall comform shown in Fig. 2. These balls may be posed of two separate .parts and containing a made of wood or other suitable material, and nlling of felt, cotton, or other soft material, are composed of two separable hemispherical which will prevent the money in the ball from sections, C C, one of which is provided with a 25 rattling as the ball is rolled along, and which lip, to, externally screw-threaded,andthe other will hold the money in the center of the hall, of which is provided with a corresponding inso that it cannot gravitate out of the center ternal screw-thread. The money is placed and prevent or retard the rolling of the ball. within the ball, and the two sections are then Theinvention also consists in the combinaconnected. In order to hold the money cen- 0 tion, with cash-balls of differentdiameters, of trally in the ball and prevent it from dropping a pair of inclined tracks or ways which have in the ball, so as to carry the center of weight an opening between them, and which diverge below the center of the ball, which would pretoward their lower ends, so as to deliver the vent its rolling, we fill the two sections of the balls of ditferent diameters at their desired ball with cotton Z) or other soft material, which 5 places, as more fully hereinafter described. also serves to cushion the money and prevent The invention also consists in the cornbinasound as the ball rolls. tion, with the pair of tracks or ways which are Our system of cash-carrying includes two designed to deliver the different-sized balls at pairs of inclined tracks or ways, 0 d, which are difi'erent points, or" receiving-boxes of novel supported by hangers c from the ceiling, oriu 0 construction, which are adapted to give an any other suitable way. The tracks or ways audible signal as the balls fall into them. ofthe pair dare placed at such adistance apart Theinvention also consists in a novel combithat the balls C may roll between them, and nation, with the pair of tracks or ways which they may have guardsf for preventing the acconduct the balls from different points to the cidental dislodgment of the balls. The guards 5 cashiers desk, ofapivoted bucket,in which a f may be connected by braces f, which hold 5 ball may be placed, and means for tilting the the tracks or ways ata proper distance apart, bucket bodily, as it is raised, to deposit the ball as shown in Fig. 4. The lower tracks or ways, between said tracks or ways. 0, are inclined toward the cashiers desk A,

The invention also consists in a novel comand adjacent theretois areceiving-box, 1), into 0 bina-tion of parts hereinafter described. i which the balls will be conducted when they roo are placed in the tracks or ways 0 at the counters. The tracks or ways 0, which conduct the cash-balls to the cashiers desk, need have no opening'between them, but may be closed or connected at their lower edges, so as to form a trough,as shown in Figs.5and 6. The cashier takes the balls from the box D, makes the proper change, and places them in the upper tracks or ways, d, which are inclined downward from the cashiers desk. The cash-balls which we use are of different diameters, as shown in Fig. 3, and the upper tracks or ways have an opening between them and diverge toward their lower ends, so that balls of different diameters will be dropped from the tracks or ways d at difit'erent points in their length. For instance, the balls belonging to the counter B nearest the cashiers desk will be the smallest, while those belonging to the counter most distant from the cashiers desk will be the largest. As the balls 0 are dropped from the tracks or ways (1 they fall into receiving-boxes E and sound an audible signal to call the salesmans attention.

In this example of our invention each of the boxes E has its bottomg pivoted at g and kept'up by a spring, IL, as shown in the case of one box in Fig. 1, and a bell, 2', is attached to the box, and a hamm,er,j, is'attached to the bottom. When the ball strikes the bottom y it depresses it and sounds the bell. In case the tracks or ways care very long, their higher ends might be so far above the floor as to make it inconvenient to reach them and place the balls in them, and in such case We may employ an'elevator like that shown in Fig. 5.

F designates a box or bucket adapted to be raised by a cord, 70, and provided with trunnions l,'which work in guides m. The ball 0 is placed in the box or bucket F, and as it is raised it strikes the ways 0 and is tilted, so that the ball will run out into the ways. The ways cmight have an inlet, 0, (see Fig. 6,) in connection with which the elevator is used, and in such case the inlet would not interfere with other balls passing through the tracks or ways in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 6.

Racks 0 may be attached to the tracks or ways 0 d, and goods may he attractively displayed upon them.

We do not claim, broadly, a cash-carrier consisting of a ball composed of separable sectionsorhemispheres, and provided with springs for retaining the cash in the center. In such a carrier the cash is liable to be thrown out by the action of the springs when the sections are separated, unless care is taken in separating them.

We do not intend to include in our invention a carriage vertically movable and provided with a shelf on which a ball may be placed, and which is tilted to deposit the ball upon tracks or ways.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A hollowball for a cash-carrier, composed of two separable parts, and a filling of cotton or other soft material to hold the money in the center of the ball and cushion it as the ball rolls, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with cash-balls of different diameters, of a pair of inclined tracks or ways which have an-opening between them, and which diverge toward theirlower ends, so as to deliver the balls of different diameters at the desired places, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with cash-balls of ditferent diameters, of inclined tracks or Ways adapted to deliver the balls at the desired places, a receiving-box for the balls, and an audible signal adapted to be sounded by the striking of the balls in the boxes, substantially as described. a

4. The combination, with the receivingboxes provided with pivoted bottoms, of the bells, and the hammers attached to said pivoted bottoms, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with cash-balls-and a pair of inclined tracks or ways for conducting them to the cashiers desk or other place, of a pivoted bucket,in which a ball may be placed, and means fortilting the bucket bodily, as it is raised, to deposit the balls between said tracks or ways, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with the tracks or ways a, of the guides on, and the elevator-bucket F, provided with trunnions l, which work in said guides, and which can turn therein as the bucket is tilted, substantially as described.

OSOARIL HEWLETT. CHAS. A. NEEDHAM.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, E1 1.. MORAN. 

